Bottle-filling machine.



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APPLICATION FILED OUT. 9, 19.02.

NO MODEL.

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PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM E. BROWN, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO BROWN'-WVINSTANLEY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF 'LOS ANGELES, CALlFORj- NIA, ACORPORATION OF CALIFORNIA.

BOTTLE-FILLING MACHINE.

DPECIFIGATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 734,809, dated July 28,1903.

Application filed October 9, 1902. Serial No. 126,462. (No model.)

To a, whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM E. BROWN, of Los Angeles, in the county ofLos Angeles and State of California, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Bottle-Filling Machines; and I do hereby declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichitappertains IO to make and use the same.

The object of this invention is to provide simple and highly efficientmeans for automatically controlling the filling of bottles with stillliquids without loss from overflow,

[5 the supply being automatically cutoff as soon as the proper amount ofliquid has been supplied to a bottle.

A further object is to provide a machine of this character suitable forbottles of different sizes.

The invention will be hereinafter fully set forth, and particularlypointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view.Fig. 2 is a similar view, on an enlarged scale, of the reservoir and aportion of a bottle.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a pan or other reservoir mountedonasupport- 0 ing-arm 2 of right-angular formation, the vertical memberof such arm being adjustably held in a tubular standard 3 bya screw 4.

5 designates a bottle support or platform, which, through alink 6 and alever 7, is mounted after the form of an ordinary weighingscale, thelever 7 being fulcrumed on standard 3 and having an adjustable weight 8mounted on its outer arm. From the bottom of the reservoir depends ashort outlet-tube 9 of 0 somewhat less diameter than the opening in abottle-neck. A valve 10, controlling the outlet, is mounted on the upperend of a stem 12, passed down through tube 9 and then bent laterally andthence upwardly to en 5 gage the outside of the tube and be guidedtherebyin its up and down movements. The extreme end 13 of thevalve-stem is outwardly flanged, so as to be engaged by the end of-abottle. The latter by reason of its engagement at diametrically oppositepoints with the outlet-tube and thenpwardly-bent portion of thevalvestem is securely held as against displacement, and the bottle isfree to move up and down under the action of its scale-support.

Upon placing a bottle on the platform with its upper end inclosing thelower end of the outlet-tube the Weight 8 being heavier will tilt lever7 and cause the bottle in its upward travel upon contacting with theflanged end of the valve-stem to unseat such valve and allow the liquidto pass through the outlet-tube to the bottle. When the weight of thefluid in the bottle is a trifle greater than the counterbalancing-Weight8, the latter will be overcome, and the bottle in moving downward withits scale-support allows the reseat ing of the valve before any waste oroverflow can occur.

When it is desired to fill larger or smaller bottles, the set-screw 4 isloosened, and the reservoir and its supporting-arm may be moved up ordown the proper distance and then held by the tightening of the screw.

I claim as my inventionl. The combination with the tubularstandard, ofthe bottle-support, the link connecting the latter to the standard, thelever fulerumed on the standard and pivoted tosaid support, a weight adjustably secured on the outer arm of the lever, the reservoir, thesupport therefor extended into said standard, the binding-screw forholding such support, the outlet-tube leading from the reservoir in linewith the bottle-support, the valve over the upper end of such tubehaving its stern extended through the latter and to one side thereof,such valve being unseated by a bottle under the action of the weightedlever, and researed when the weight of the bottle counterbalances thelever, as set forth.

2. The combination with the tubular standard, of the bottle-support, thelink connecting the latter to the standard, the lever fulcrumed on thestandard and pivoted to said 5 support, a Weight adjustably secured onthe outer arm of the lever, the reservoir, the right-angular supporttherefor having its vertical member extended into said tubular standard,the binding-screw for holding such 10.0

support, the outlet-tube leading from the In testimony whereof I havesigned this ing witnesses.

WILLIAM E. BROWN. 7

Witnesses:

valve over the upper end of such tube having its stem extended throughthe latter and 5 to one side thereof, such valve Being unseated by abottle under the action oi the Weighted lever, and reseated when theweight of the bottle co'unterbalztnces the lever, as set forth.

'ZENA B. WVALZES, L. L. WAsHB RN.

reservoir in line with the bottle-support, the specification in thepresence of two subserib- I0

